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Wisconsin’s Violence Against Women with Disabilities and Deaf Women Project

Disability Rights Wisconsin continues in its seventh year of collaboration with the Wisconsin Coalition Against Domestic Violence (WCADV) and Wisconsin Coalition Against Sexual Assault (WCASA) to address domestic and sexual violence against women with disabilities and Deaf/deaf women. Through a federal grant funded through the Office on Violence Against Women, U.S. Department of Justice, our statewide organizations have joined together to promote our collaborative vision:

Women with disabilities and deaf/Deaf women who experience sexual assault and/or domestic violence will be supported by people who have actively prepared for access and who think about the meaning of respect one woman at a time.

Throughout these seven years, we have sought to ensure that the objectives and activities of this Project continue to be centered around:

the distinctive dynamics of domestic violence (DV), sexual assault (SA) and stalking against women with disabilities,

the paramount importance of victim safety in all of its undertakings,

the necessity for appropriate and effective services to women victims with disabilities, and

equal access through compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.

Enhance the community’s capacity to serve women victims with disabilities and Deaf women in a manner that is accessible, supportive and culturally affirmative.

These strategies have been employed specifically with three pilot communities: the Ashland/Bayfield area; Brown County; and with a newly emerging statewide Deaf-run/Deaf services organization, Deaf Unity Against Domestic Violence.

Within each of these communities, Disability Rights Wisconsin along with our collaborative partners are working to foster informal and formal relationships among organizations and groups located within these communities, while simultaneously integrating knowledge of and enhanced capacity to respond to issues of disability, trauma, violence, abuse and safety. Various trainings, accessibility assessments and community organizing activities are underway.

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